Archive for 2011 November

In what was a busy night at RIBA headquarters, the last day of the Puttin’ on the Glitz was marked yesterday by a free exhibition tour with Jonathan Makepeace (Assistant Curator, Photographs Collection). The

Albertopolis is now open. With today’s post are a few images of the displays that explore the history of South Kensington and take a look at future proposals for this area affectionately referred to as

The timing of the new exhibition ‘Albertopolis’ could not be more apt – its opening tomorrow coincides with the near-completion of the Exhibition Road redevelopment. The plan by architect Dixon Jones has redesigned this north-south corridor, formerly lined

Vladimir Tatlin’s tower, a proposed steel monument to the Third International and Bolshevik Revolution, is considered to be one of the greatest pieces of architecture never to have been built. At the Royal Academy

In the RIBA talk ‘James Stuart and the Birth of the Greek Revival’ on 15 November 2011, Curator Charles Hind brought together material from the collections of the RIBA British Architectural Library and the Victoria and Albert Museum to discuss the

“It is impossible, by examining his work chronologically, to find an evolutionary logic to it…Moss proposes an architecture that is free of consolidated points of reference and featuring strong elements of indeterminateness, ambiguity and

Last night, the winner of the 2011 RIBA Manser Medal – Hampstead Lane in North London by Duggan Morris Architects – was announced.
Here judges Peter Mackie, Managing Director of Property Vision, a subsidiary of

Exhibitions and displays
This week’s Tuesday Late was an opportunity for almost 100 students from universities across the United Kingdom to find out what the RIBA had to offer. 66 Portland Place came alive as the students